It seems that there is a growing number of educated British Muslim women who are unmarriageable and left to spinsterhood. Educated British Muslim women are being passed over for marriage in favour of women with more traditional values from the family’s home country. Muslim women in the UK whose families hail from the Indian sub-continent ...
Dear Madame X, There is much discussion of The Obamas, a new book by Jodi Kantor that discusses the presidential marriage. One of the topics caught my eye. Apparently Barack Obama ordered the hit on Osama Bin Laden without discussing it with his wife first. Now as President, he has no obligation to do ...
Should polygamy be banned in Canada? It’s still a valid question, but do former special prosecutor Richard Peck a favour and leave him out of it. The Vancouver lawyer was appointed to the polygamy investigation in 2007, where he recommended not pressing misconduct charges against Bountiful, B.C. individuals, but now makes it clear he wants no role ...
Fall in love in 2012? More like fall out of love and screw other people. Today is the worst day of the year for cheating, according to experts. Illicit Encounters, the “UK’s largest dating website for married people,” welcomes an astonishing 450 members each day, but yesterday, 994 people signed up. Quite the dramatic spike. ...
Dear Madame X, I’ve been married to a wonderful man for five years but we’re starting to have problems with our sex life. He’s gained a lot of weight in the last year and now has a beer gut. I find him much less attractive now and don’t think I could stay with him if ...
Being single around the holidays opens people up to an interrogation about their sex life from bothersome relatives. There is also pressure at office parties, potluck dinners, and New Year’s Eve parties. But alone no longer translates into lonely. People are slower to pair off than ever before because, quite honestly, being single is fun! ...
So I don’t have bad karma every Thanksgiving I must say I love the spirit of this holiday. The idea is similar to Christmas and Easter in that you get together with family you may have not seen in awhile to catch up, eat and celebrate some time off work. Now that I have pacified ...
Have you changed your name to your husband’s? Kept yours? Hyphenated? That’s fine and dandy, but how do you decide what to call the kids?! Here Reservoir Dad takes a look at this thorny issue. When I first started thinking about the “name change” issue — whether or not women and children should adopt their ...
Spiderman saves Mary Jane from free-falling to her death, Superman goes to great lengths to protect Lois Lane and, in Titanic, Jack apparently saves Rose “in every way that a person can be saved.” That’s all good and glorious, but our beloved cinematic saviours are far from real-life heroes. So it’s about time we acknowledge ...
Today may be a day of remembrance, but it’s also a day that many couples are tying the knot. Because today is 11/11/11 it is considered the “most auspicious day in a century” and signifies eternal love in “Chinese geomancy.” There have been over 5,000 marriages in Shanghai alone. There have also been group weddings ...
Usually getting fired is a bad thing. But, somehow, this woman is happy about it. Can you imagine...
My attention was drawn this week to an article on the resurgence of the market for men’s underwear. It...
Meh, the night bus. It isn’t ideal, but with the price of trains nowadays and the hellish standing-up-from-Edinburgh-to-Manchester situation...
Ladies, learn to know the signs of ovulation! So many women have no idea and so many headaches and...
Remember that time when I was with my friends and I saw you playing pool with your friends and...
Dear Madame X, My girl is hot but every single time we get into a fight she is all...
My first encounter with Kitchen, Banana Yoshimoto’s 1988 novel (translated into English in 1993 by Megan Backus) was in...
A slut is a person of any gender who has the courage to lead life according to the radical...
